HYDE PARK — Two of Chicago’s great minds, architect Frank Lloyd Wright and landscape architect Jens Jensen, worked pretty well together, and the Chicago Park District wants to explain how that happened.
Park District historian Julia Bachrach will talk about Jensen’s own development of a “prairie style” as Wright was working on his prairie-inspired architecture at a 5:30 p.m. talk on Nov. 12 at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, 5815 S. Kimbark Ave.
Jensen was an early superintendent of Chicago’s Park District and injected ideas of the prairie early on into the city’s parks with the designs for Garfield and Humboldt parks on the West Side.
On the South Side, Jensen was behind the development of what is now Harold Washington Park and was a mentor to landscape architects like Alfred Caldwell, who designed Promontory Point and the lily pool in Lincoln Park.
Bachrach will explain how Jensen’s desire to reflect the natural landscape of the Midwest developed alongside Wright and others working in Chicago at the time.
Tickets are $10 and available through the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust’s website.
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